Five rare 19th-century hardcover books dealing with slavery and abolition, including: a first edition of Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, Sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, During a Captivity of More Than Twenty Years Among the Slaveholders of Kentucky, published by Bela Marsh of Boston in 1846; a first edition of Thrice Through the Furnace: A Tale of the Times of the Iron Hoof by Sophia L. Little, published by A. W. Pearce of Pawtucket in 1852; a second edition of Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward, published by Allings & Cory of Rochester, New York, in 1859; a first edition of The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist, published by Meyer & Brother of Chicago in 1893; and a first edition From Slave Cabin to Pulpit: The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph, published by James H. Earle of Boston in 1893. Several have frontispieces featuring facsimile signatures of their authors. In overall good to very good condition, with general wear throughout, various ownership inscriptions, heavy staining to the textblock of Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke.
